"Please give me a ride on your back!" Said the Duck to the Kangaroo. "I would sit quite still, and say nothing but 'Quack,' The whole of the long day through! [Illustration] And we'd go to the Dee, and the Jelly Bo Lee, Over the land, and over the sea;-- Please take me a ride! O do!" Said the Duck to the Kangaroo. Said the Kangaroo to the Duck, "This requires some little reflection; Perhaps on the whole it might bring me luck, And there seems but one objection, [Illustration] Which is, if you'll let me speak so bold, Your feet are unpleasantly wet and cold, And would probably give me the roo- Matiz." said the Kangaroo. [Illustration] Said the Duck, "As I sate on the rocks, I have thought over that completely, And I bought four pairs of worsted socks Which fit my web-feet neatly [Illustration] And to keep out the cold I've bought a cloak And every day a cigar I'll smoke, All to follow my own dear true Love of a Kangaroo!" Said the Kangaroo, "I'm ready! All in the moonlight pale; But to balance me well, dear Duck, sit steady! And quite at the end of my tail!" So away they went with a hop and a bound, And they hopped the whole world three times round; And who so happy,--O who, As the Duck and the Kangaroo? [Illustration] A LIST OF WORKS BY THE LATE EDWARD LEAR. _In oblong 4to, cloth gilt,_ The Book of Nonsense. 27th Edition, 110 Illustrations printed in outline as originally published. More Nonsense. Third Edition. 104 Illustrations. _In small 4to, cloth gilt,_ Nonsense Songs and Stories. 7th Edition. Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets. 162 Illustrations. Fifth Edition. MR. RUSKIN says, in his _List of the Best Hundred Authors_--"Surely the most beneficent and innocent of all looks yet produced is 'The Book of Nonsense,' with its corollary carols, inimitable and refreshing, and perfect in rhythm. I really don't know any author to whom I am half so grateful for my idle self as Edward Lear. I shall put him first of my hundred authors." LONDON AND NEW YORK: FREDERICK WARNE & CO. [Illustration: Back Cover]